Dods EU Monitoring reports that the INTA committee has debated the EU-Japan FTA on the 7 October. Pedro Silva Pereira (S&D, PT) has been the newly appointed rapporteur on the EU-Japan agreement. The INTA committee has heard Mauro Petriccione, EU Chief Negotiator for the EU/Japan FTA on a number of issues with particular attention to the automotive industry facing non-tariff barriers in Japan as well as public procurement and the Japanese railway sector. Read more